by scribe | May 24, 2021 | Chess Lecture, games, literature, openings, people
Many of you know the game I’m going to write about today. Don McLean doesn’t play a concert without “American Pie.” And I’m not going to write a lifetime retrospective of my chess games without my game against David Pruess. It’s...
by scribe | Mar 29, 2012 | Chess Lecture, games, literature, openings
I was very excited to see today that Tim Harding, a regular columnist at ChessCafe, has written an article (March 14, 2012) on the Bryntse Gambit! For any readers of this blog who don’t know their “dana blogs chess” history, the Bryntse Gambit is a...
by scribe | Jul 11, 2010 | Chess Lecture, openings
As anybody who has seen my ChessLectures or read enough of this blog knows, one of my favorite opening experiments of all time was the following queen sacrifice against the Sicilian Defense: 1. e4 c5 2. f4 d5 3. Nf3!? de 4. Ng5 (a Budapest Defense reversed) .Nf6 5....
